Grace Alley Mural Vandalized: a letter from our director Carol Queen

Help needed Monday, April 1st at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco! We need painters and volunteers to restore the Grace Alley Mural. Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission St. (between 9th and 10th) San Francisco, CA 94103 Lovely people! We need your help. Our entire building has been attacked by mural-bombers! Huge…

Collecting Sex Materials for Libraries

Directly from Scott Vieira and Michelle Martinez, assistant professors at Sam Houston State University- who are seeking participants for a survey concerning sex material in libraries. Please find the time to participate- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NZT9P79 In an attempt to understand librarian and library staff attitudes towards collecting sexual materials for libraries, librarians Scott Vieira and Michelle Martinez, assistant professors at Sam Houston State…

The BIG PICTURE Colorado

Two images of mine, including the recognizable, PLUG,  is being blown up! The BIG PICTURE Colorado, running through March through April 2013, is a world wide street art celebrations c0-hosted by Art-Plant, a Denver based non-profit whose mission is to foster growth in the creative community, and Artwork Network’s mission is to create opportunities for art by developing a network…

Bookish Beast: Comic & Zine Fest, Open Call

With Wondercon not in San Francisco this year there is not great comics events happening in April. Wouldn’t be great to have a l ocal comics event that was a s uniques as San Francisco? The Center for Sex & Culture is a fantastic multi-use space that is perfect for a small gathering of local…

CSC Zineography: Community Cataloging Project

The CSC Library & Archive is embarking on a community cataloging adventure, and we need your help to make it happen. Our library and archive is home to an amazing, unique, wonderfully unusual and, as always, sexual– zine collection. We have begun the process of scanning, gaining permissions, and cataloging this collection. Our hope is to inlist members…

The CSC Library & Archive at the 3rd Annual EBABZ Fest

I am so looking forward to this! Not only do we get to present and promote alternative literature and the CSC’s Libraries amazing zine collection– a fucking rock star art hero of mine will be there showing new works and performing– Eric Drooker!! The Center for Sex and Culture Library & Archive at the 3rd Annual East Bay Alternative Book &…

An Open Letter from Henry Miller Memorial Library Big Sur, California

Help Save the Henry Miller Memorial Library – taken directly from the Henry Miller Memorial Library website. Dear Friend of the Henry Miller Memorial Library, This is a plea for help. We need to upgrade our facilities to create a sustainable Library and it’ll cost much more than we have in our savings. We need to raise…

CSC Library & Archive highlights

I have started a tumblr to feature all the amazing finds that come #acrossmydesk– and a few other random shots of life in San Francisco, but mainly I created it as a way to show what comes across the desk of a sex librarian. It can be found at Across My Desk.

Library at Occupy the Farm

Library at Occupy the Farm takebackthetract.com occupythefarm.com Excerpt from Take This Book: The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street rhizome.org/editorial/2011/dec/19/take-book/ Images by Steve Rhodes